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JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., Inc., 5 East 57th. Street, N.Y., N.Y. May 6th., 1943. Dear Boris: Many thanks for your long letter which I received yesterday. It is very clear this time and I do know now how to handle the Metropolitan, should we be faced with any sort of proposition, and I am writing today to Mr. Nichols, as per enclosed copy. As I think I wrote you previously, I have taken up the matter anew with Edward J. Holmes in Boston. Alas, herein their answer! This sounds very much like a closed chapter. Just after my last letter to you, J. J. Hill came in and I tried my level best to interest him in the "Grecian Youth" which was the more so easy to take up as I had written him asking him to come in and see it. He remained silent and did not ask for any price. He gave me the impression of someone who had already seen the head, though he didn't say so. He was in a great rush and volunteered the information that he would come in the following day when he would be at leisure. However this did not materialize, and as it is now over a week ago, I surmise that he has returned to his camp. However, the last address he had was at his Officers' Training camp and now that he has his bars, I suppose he has received a new assignment - where? By the way, with him was a very charming elderly lady whose name, when I was introduced, I did not get and who said when I mentioned your name and showed the head, etc., that you had made a portrait of her grandchild, - could it have been in lead or pewter? This will probably allow you to identify the lady, and through her, if you tell me who she is, I might try and get younr Hill's address. [[strikethrough]] Now as [[/strikethrough]] Now as regards West Point, there is no harm in trying, and if you send me a very good photograph and full data about the plaster busts, sizes, price, and the bronzes which could be made, I will write to the Commanding General. No harm can result from it. With kind thoughts, Yours very sincerely, (Germain Séligmann) Boris Lovet-Lorski, Esq., 1655 Gilcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, Cal.
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